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87. Attractive, Informative, and Communicative Robot System on Guide Plate as an Attendant with Awareness of User’s Gaze

Author

Yonezawa, Tomoko, Yamazoe, Hirotake, Utsumi, Akira, Abe, Shinji, Yonezawa, Tomoko, Yamazoe, Hirotake, Utsumi, Akira, and Abe, Shinji

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce an interactive guide plate system by adopting a gaze-communicative stuffed-toy robot and a gaze-interactive display board. An attached stuffed-toy robot on the system naturally show anthropomorphic guidance corresponding to the user’s gaze orientation. The guidance is presented through gaze-communicative behaviors of the stuffed-toy robot using joint attention and eye-contact reactions to virtually express its own mind in conjunction with b) vocal guidance and c) projection on the guide plate. We adopted our image-based remote gaze-tracking method to detect the user’s gazing orientation. The results from both empirical studies by subjective / objective evaluations and observations of our demonstration experiments in a semipublic space show i) the total operation of the system, ii) the elicitation of user’s interest by gaze behaviors of the robot, and iii) the effectiveness of the gaze-communicative guide adopting the anthropomorphic robot.

Published
2015

94. Preliminary Study on Remote Assistance for People with Dementia at Home by Using Multi-media Contents

Author

Kiyoshi Yasuda, Toshimi Hamada, Noriaki Kuwahara, Utsumi Akira, Kazunari Morimoto, and Shinji Abe

Subjects
Toilet, Family caregivers, medicine.medical_treatment, Applied psychology, ComputingMethodologies_IMAGEPROCESSINGANDCOMPUTERVISION, Video instruction, Viewpoints, medicine.disease, Remote assistance, Reminiscence therapy, Reminiscence, medicine, ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDSOCIETY, Dementia, Psychology
Abstract

We are developing the system that remotely support the daily living of people with dementia at home by using multi-media contents for bringing their peace of mind, for preventing their behavioural disturbances, and for guiding actions of their daily living, because a major problem in providing good care at home to people with dementia is that it must be constantly provided without interruption, which puts a great burden on family caregivers. At first, our developed system can provide dementia people with multi-media contents such as reminiscence photos and videos for instilling a sense of peacefulness in their minds. These contents are used in remote reminiscence therapy by using simultaneous photo and video sharing. Also, we developed video instruction system for guiding their actions in a toilet to help them. We evaluated the effectiveness of our system from viewpoints of relieving the stress of their family caregivers, and of the extent of their independence in daily living. According to the evaluation results, we discuss on essential problems to be overcome for supporting people with dementia remotely, and present our approach towards realizing the system that effectively guides and navigates people with dementia for living independently.

Published
2009

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